Friday, May 18, 2007

Random quotes (from my collection)

*Indifference and neglect often do more damage than outright dislike. -J.K. Rowlings

*For frequent tears have run/ The colors from my life and left so dead/ And pale a stuff. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning

*With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. -Steven Weinberg

*I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people that annoy me. -Noel Coward

*One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -Bertrand Russell

*Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soulmate is the one you are actually married to. -J.R.R. Tolkien

*Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. -Paul Tournier

*Golf is a good walk spoiled. -Mark Twain

*To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. -Voltaire

*Were kisses all the joys in bed, one woman would another wed. -Shakespeare :)

*For where thou art, there is the world itself, and where thou art not, desolation. -Shakespeare

*Everyone can be great because everyone can serve. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

*If you judge people, you have no time to love them. -Mother Teresa

*Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better. -Shakespeare

*Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. -Bertrand Russell

*The success of love is in the loving-- it is not the result of loving. of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done. -Mother Teresa [That's encouraging for those of us in the helping professions!]

*A critic is a manwho knows the way but can't drive the care. -Kenneth Tynis

*Nothing is really work unless you'd rather be doing something else. -James M. Barrie

*If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. -Thomas Edison

*For Christ plays in ten thousand places,/ Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his/ To the Father through the features of men's faces. -Gerald Manley Hopkins

[BTW, for any of you who may care, Veronica Mars was indeed cancelled. Boo-hoo.]

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